Istoricul sporturilor de luptă și artist marțial
Republic Pictures produced many quality movie serials in the 1930s and 1940s. One of their finer offerings was Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941), a twelve chapter serial (affiliate link) based on the popular comic book super hero. Captain Marvel is known as Shazam today. Billy Batson, played by Frank Coghlan, Jr., accompanies the Malcolm Expedition to Siam. While searching an
În aceeași zi, Joe Stecher l-a luptat cu Stanislaus Zbyszko pentru versiunea recunoscută a Campionatului Mondial de lupte grele din St.. Louis, Ed “Strangler” Lewis challenged “Big” Wayne Munn for his disputed Michigan-Illinois World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Lewis dropped the title to Munn in February 1925. In April 1925, Zbyszko defeated Munn in a famous double-cross. The match between Lewis and
Jake Kilrain is best known as the last and toughest challenger to John L. Sullivan in the last bare knuckle world championship fight. Despite Kilrain’s inability to beat John L. Sullivan, he had a successful career both before and after the bout with the mighty Sullivan. Fighting for 10 more years in gloved bouts, Kilrain was mostly successful but on
Octombrie 24, 1941, Monogram Pictures released Spooks Run Wild starring the East Side Kids and Bela Lugosi. At this point in his career, Bela Lugosi was relegated to “B” movies. He played in several films with the East Side Kids, which were all enjoyable if not exactly classic cinema. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall and Bobby Jordan play the leaders
Evan “Strangler” Lewis was a scary competitor. Although he was not a large man at 5’09” and weighed 170 de lire sterline, Lewis’ mastery of submissions made him an equal or better of most wrestlers of his era. Jack Carkeek was a terrific wrestler but one match with Lewis almost caused him to retire. Lewis’ reputaţia era strâns legată de temutul lui
Aprilie 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Strangler” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” matches. Lewis in fact dropped his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek Zbyszko in 1917. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling
Frank J. Quinn, un local St. avocat Louis, a servit ca manager pentru luptătorii profesioniști George Baptise, Charley Olson și Fred Beell. Inițial un admirator al lui George Baptiste, care a fost o legendă în St. Cartierul Louis din jurul bulevardelor Cook și Vandeventer. Baptiste îl va angaja pe Quinn ca iesle și mai târziu avocat pentru compania sa de corturi și copertine. During his
Ianuarie 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). The film is set in Britain during World War I. Released almost two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film showed that Hollywood and probably most of the countries sympathies were with Britain and the Allies. While British
Samuel Rachmann promoted the International Wrestling Tournament in New York during 1915. Rachmann invited wrestlers from around the world to the tournament but his real intention was to establish European Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion Alex Aberg as the successor to the retired Frank Gotch as World Champion. Planul lui Rachmann de a înființa Aberg mergea conform planului după începerea turneului
In early 1916, Martin “Agricultor” Burns, care l-a antrenat și condus pe Frank Gotch la Campionatul Mondial de greutate grea, a început să nege că a dezvoltat actualul campion american la categoria grea Joe Stecher. Afirmația părea ciudată, deoarece Burns lucra cu Stecher de câțiva ani. Burns l-a ajutat să pregătească Stecher pentru meciul său de campionat cu Charlie Cutler 1915. Într-un fel, ce Burns